Box 2
Contains 142 Results:
Stanford University Library, 1967
Includes information sheet and a picture of the press on the second to last page of the summer issue of Stanford Today.
Color prints of presses
Large color prints of various models of presses; some are photograph prints, others are from magazines.
Clipping about Leonardo da Vinci exhibition
This series contains items not suited for other series. Of note are a few typed lists (censuses) of hand presses in California and/or the West, as well as a large newspaper sheet depicting the progress of the Pioneer Press across the United States. The series contains photos, newspaper and journal articles, notes, and other information about presses.
Miscellaneous Photos and Press Descriptions
Includes small and large photographic prints, journal and newspaper articles, letters, and other ephemera relating to Albion, Washington, Columbian, and other printing presses. Also includes an invitation to an event at Dawson's Book Shop where Edwin Carpenter showed his photo census of handpresses in California (1981).
Annual Exhibition of Best Western Books, by William Hogan, ca. 1965
Includes an article by William Hogan, and three pictures of a Lowe press on a sidewalk.
Type Faces, 1947, 1950, 1967
Includes two letters about type faces, a photocopy of an article about Robert Farrar (Greenwood Press), and examples of type faces.
Albert Newman Francisco tombstone, 1965
Includes keepsake "Monument to a Printer", pictures of Francisco's tombstone, and a picture of Edwin Carpenter and Roger Levenson by the tombstone at the Sonoma Masonic Cemetery in California.
Census of Hand Presses
Includes hand-written (possible draft?) of a census of hand presses and some assorted notes.
Iron Handpresses -- multiple and miscellaneous notes, ca. 1956-1958
Includes a draft of a portion of a census of handpresses (1957), a copy of a letter from Lew Allen to Betty Downs (1958), multiple copies of a printing of "Army Field Presses in the 1860s and 70s" by Edwin Carpenter (1956), photographs, and other bits of ephemera regarding iron handpresses.
Miscellaneous notes on handpresses
Includes quotations from Glover Snow's "Hand Printing Presses of the Last Century" in the Chronicle of Early American Industries, v. 3, no. 17 (October 1948) and no. 19 (April 1949). Also includes a Chandler & Price pilot press parts list and diagram, and a photocopy of a book or article by Tom Craig, "The Restoration of Iron Hand-presses".